World Arts and Cultures

专业介绍

The B.A. in World Arts and Cultures (WAC) enables students to critically examine and constructively engage the social and cultural contexts that shape artists and their creativity. Our interdisciplinary curriculum accentuates those local histories and global influences that inform ethnographic, curatorial, creative and scholarly praxis, as well as activist politics and questions of social justice.

The major encourages students to understand the making and reception of arts and social movements through a critical lens that is rooted in a range of cultural and postcolonial theories. As such, education in this major is built on the dialogue between theory and practice, between creative work and critical analysis. Our faculty have specialties ranging from documentary filmmaking and theory, health and healing, community engagement, ethnography, critical curatorial studies, research methodologies, critical race studies, art direction, digital culture and surveillance studies, Indigenous studies, prison abolition, spoken word, feminist theory and more.